Comment on I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day

• timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The article is from a UK newspaper. What is and isn’t legal for them to regulate is decided by their Parliament and nobody else. No Kings, and all that.

  Meanwhile, you should know that the “free speech” lectures are getting pretty old from the country that checks social media history at the border to make sure you didn’t say anything bad about the Dear Leader, which shuts down TV shows it doesn’t like, and generally ensures the media toes the party line.

  (See also - lectures on why kids shooting up schools is a necessary price to pay for that well regulated militia that will be along to save you from tyrants, well, real soon now…)

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    from the country that checks social media history at the border to make sure you didn’t say anything bad about the Dear Leader

    That’s also illegal.

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    • XLE@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Genuinely asking here: do you think the word “illegal” means wrong?

      By definition, if a sovereign government decides it’s allowed to do something, it’s not illegal. You could say it’s unethical (though I’m not sure why you would), but you can’t say it’s illegal.

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      • artyom@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Genuinely asking here: do you think the word “illegal” means wrong?

        …no? But I think in this particular instance, obviously yes.

        if a sovereign government decides it’s allowed to do something, it’s not illegal

        …wat? Why would that be illegal?

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